"Ant-Man" physicist who named the quantum realm explains what he is

There is real magic in this world

Growing up in Spata, a small town outside of Athens, I had never imagined that Marvel would ever give me an opportunity to present them to a stranger even more A bending version of the alternative dimension where Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) finds herself trapped for 30 years – and from which her daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) bravely fights to take her back home .

Still, I wish the characters in "Ant" Man and the Wasp "was a little more curious about the mysteries of the quantum realm.Do you want to know if there was a Starbucks out there? what is quantum is transcendent, a spiritual awakening of the spirit that even Nespresso can not provide, so let me tell you about the Quantum Kingdom, I named it, after all.

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As a Quantum Physicist at Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (I know that she has a bady name, but she also has brains), I'm often asked, "So, that's quantum physics? "By the people I just met, I mean, they do not even want to know what my majestic name Spyridon means (it does not mean anything, but still). they ask personal questions, like "What is quantum physics?"

Well, quantum physics is a theory of physics, no, a theory of physics transcending knowledge, which unlocks the power of the race human to question reality in a way that goes beyond the emerging and semi-clbadical base of observation resulting from the quantum decoherence of the true and pluripotent nature of the Quantum Kingdom

D & # 39; agree, I did not want to stupefy it. 19659008] Perhaps a more technical explanation using linear algebra and differential calculus is appropriate here. Alas, it was said that there was a word limit for this kind of guest columns, so I will not go into details. Sorry. Instead, how about what I told Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna about the Quantum Realm? For such a small place, my Spidey-sense tells me that it will play a big role in the future of the Marvel film universe.

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There is real magic in this world. It started nowhere, at a time when there was no time. The Big Bang, the cradle of space-time, did not occur at a specific time in space or time. Space and Time emerged from a place where no concept existed. A place where the laws of physics, even those of Quantum Physics, have not yet crystallized into the reliable rules that we use to predict the orbits of planets around stars, or the probability of collision of two particles in an explosive affair. to the new physics. It all started at a place beyond physics. For those super-nerds among you, the place I'm talking about is not even an abstract mathematical universe. It goes further than that. It is a place where every choice is possible and has consequences on what will become. And what comes to be is what we call reality .

But what is the reality ? Have you ever heard someone define the word? I mean, really define it, as in a way that you could apply it to everyday life? Einstein tried and failed miserably. So let's try too. It's okay. The worst thing that can happen is that we are as stupid as Einstein.

Define reality as a set of dynamic events that can be reliably observed by an individual, upon request . You, flying in space while dreaming, are not part of the reality, according to this definition. You, who dreamed of flying in space, make part of reality. Why? Because, in the second case, you could record yourself sleeping and record your brain waves while dreaming, the latter being able to be interpreted using an automatic learning algorithm powered by data recordings of 39, anterior brain waves corresponding to your own dreams. The main difference between you flying in the dream and dreaming of "flying", is that the people you have to convince (this could be just you, let alone your father and your mother, or your therapist) of your flying powers are not found in your "dream world": They are in this world, the "real" world.

And, yes, if you got lost in the world "dream", never wake up in this world, dream would become your reality, allowing you to experience "miracles" that are not part of this shared reality.

He gets even crazier. I have mentioned that events should be observed reliably. Who decides what is a reliable observation? I mean … some events seem pretty easy to clbadify as real. The sun was rising every morning, your car was not moving in traffic, a single electron was crossing two distant slots at the same time … Yeah, this one's snuck in there one way or the other. 39, another. Being in two places at the same time is a quantum thing. But you think quantum physics is weird? Consider going back to the 1850s, a few years before the Scottish physicist (and bad general boy) James Clerk Maxwell developed the theory of electromagnetic waves. Now you are there, wearing your pink gold Apple Watch, telling people that you can talk to others around the world and hear them in the air. What we take for granted now is what we called magic in the past. And those who decide what defines the ever-changing boundary between reality and magical thinking are scientists.

We scientists only judge everyone, and everything, as severely as possible. And among us, the Simon Cowells of Science, are experimental quantum physicists. If biologists claim a new discovery, they must provide evidence that their confidence in their experience is greater than 95%. In other words, their discovery may be false because of an experimental error, but the probability that it will occur is less than 5% (one in twenty). For you, this may seem impressive, but for an experimental quantum physicist, it sounds positively quaint. For a discovery in physics, like the recent discovery of gravitational waves (go Caltech!), Or the discovery of the Higgs boson (do not call it the particle of God, trust me on this one), you have need to be very confident in your experimental proofs. That is, 99.99994 percent certain, to be exact. We call it trust "five-sigma" (sigma means standard deviation). Biology relies on "two-sigma" trust. The quantum realm is closer to a billion sigma (more or less).

And here it is: The reality is a dynamic bubble containing events that can be observed on demand, with a confidence greater than five sigma. Dynamics means that the bubble boundary changes over time, as new events pbad the test of the five sigmas and we welcome them into the Real realm . The most important aspect of all this is that five is less than six, which is less than one billion. In other words, the reality has strict requirements for membership, but not impossible. Yet some events, such as "walking through a wall," are so unlikely that we do not think they will ever be part of reality. For example, turn a coin just a million times and get a million heads in a row (do not even try)

So, we make a deal with the devil. We call events out of our reality impossible not only highly improbable from our particular point of view. Then we proceed to push these impossible events to the realm of the imagination. Time travel, teleportation, Spider-Man dying. When they arrive, we all lose our collective shit.

It gets a bit too long, so let me conclude. The Kingdom of Quantum is a place where almost anything is possible. If you know how to navigate by mastering quantum entanglement (do not ask, unless you want me out for a fancy dinner), you can design the reality for it to manifest itself at your taste just like a computer programmer can write code that allows you to experience being a soldier in virtual reality, fighting unicorns with lasers during the First World War. Space and Time are dimensions that emerge from a soup of pure possibilities, the Quantum Kingdom. The laws of physics themselves are only suggestions in the quantum domain, taking only a more precise form as we "deport" this place of infinite possibilities, to find ourselves in the macroscopic world that we call home.

Do people maintain their mental health (and their shape) in the quantum domain? Love.

I'm kidding. It takes decades of studying mathematics and physics, with a little philosophy and a lot of magical thinking. Or you can just be a badbad like Michelle Pfeifer. She could probably even beat Chun Li.

22 Wondrous Wonders From, From Forget to Killmonger (Photos)

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  Marvel has a nasty problem. Or until incredibly recently – they had a nasty problem. A decade of memorable movies and heroes that Hollywood has to offer, but they struggled to pit the Avengers against a super villain chewing scenes, tied with the Joker, Bane, Doc Ock or Magneto . And no asterisk will do these last two parts of the MCU. Since the bad guys are almost never the best part of a Marvel movie, we decided to look back at those who worked surprisingly, and those who certainly did not.

  (Note: We have included the major villains in this summary, so no Laufey, Mandarin, Dormammu or Tony Stark circa "Civil War")

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  22. Ivan Vanko / Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) – "Iron Man 2"

  What a mumbling. Iron Man has shot down the Hulk, but in one way or another he is struggling with a guy with an extension and a pet bird?

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21. Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) – "Thor: the world of darkness"

Far from being considered an evil by an elf, this pale-skinned guy is known for his bad dialogue and his tail of even worse horse

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20. Emil Blonsky / The Abomination (Tim Roth) – "The Incredible Hulk"

General Ross is technically the one who calls the shots, but Blonsky is the real villain in "L & # 39; Amazing Hulk ". Tim Roth plays it with Enough, Crazy-eyed Gusto, but it's a pbading shootout followed by a transformation into another CGI monster that just disfigures.

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19. Ronan (Lee Pace) – "Guardians of the Galaxy"

For a film as light and airy as "The Guardians of the Galaxy", it is a pity that his villain is too heavy and too heavy. The noisy and loud performance of Lee Pace resembling an Egyptian god belongs entirely to another film

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18. Darren Cross / Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll) – "Ant-Man"

Yet another despised CEO drives to evil by copying the high-tech costume of another hero, Darren Cross is Obadiah Stane with less than malice. Fortunately, Corey Stoll is almost as friendly as Paul Rudd.

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17. Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) – "Doctor Strange"

I am struck by the little Kaecilius in "Doctor Strange". You could argue that he's even the second bad guy behind the giant Dormammu face. Mads Mikkelsen is a mean Bond, yet his dazzled fish eyes seem to do all the work here.

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16. Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) – "Iron Man 2"

In another universe, Sam Rockwell may have made a great Tony Stark, and he auditioned for the role. But as a salesman and merchant of ammunition, he makes a Tony Stark-wannabe and an irresistible rival, even if he is more greedy than maleficent.

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15. Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) – "Iron Man 3"

Another Tony Stark impersonator, Aldrich Killian is bad because he puts the moves on Pepper Potts and is literally a brandon. Although the subplot, the backstory that Stark "created" Killian by snubbing him on top of a roof is a bit lame.